TY - BOOK AU - Piscitello, Lucia AU - Santangelo, Grazia D. AU - Ghauri, Pervez N. TI - Do multinationals feed local development and growth SN - 9780080453606 U1 - 338.9 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Amsterdam., Boston PB - Elsevier, KW - International business enterprises KW - Europe KW - Information technology KW - Technological innovations N1 - Contents 1. Introduction Impact on Host Development and Growth 2. Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development : Opportunities and Limitations from a developing Country perspectives 3. The Role of Sectoral Composition of Foreign Direct Investment Knowledge Flows in the Local Context 4. MNEs' Location Behavior and Industrial Clustering. 5. Exploring the characteristics of Technology Spillovers Using patent citation Data 6. Global and Local Knowledge Linkages : The Case of MNE Subsidiaries in Argentina Impact on Home Competitiveness 7. The Impact of knowledge transfer on MNEs Parent companies. evidence from Italian case 8. Home Country effects of investing Abroad : Evidence from Italy 9. Globalization and its Impact on Development : Policy Issues; Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-217) and index ER -